Re: backport.pl - two features for committers' use

Daniel Shahaf wrote on Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 22:51:14 +0000:
> The script can also show the log (by pressing 'l'), open just that entry
> in $EDITOR to allow editing the Notes field or the parentheticals (by
> pressing 'e'), and add entries to an ignore list so you are never
> prompted for them again (useful for ignoring swig-pl -related
> nominations). For a usage summary, run it with the --help option, or
> type '?' at the prompt.

It's also possible to quickly jump to a particular entry by providing
a pattern as argv[1]. For example,

% ../trunk-wc/tools/dist/backport.pl 'txn prop'

would prompt me only for nominations that have the text 'txn prop'
somewhere in their full texts (that is, Evgeny's patch).

Daniel
Received on 2015-03-05 00:09:13 CET